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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't we get some "normal" candidates who don't aspire to higher office? I feel like my baseline is so low: [b]believes schools should be open [/b]and doesn't mock the disabled.[/quote]

The schools have been open a long time now.  There were varying views at the time on how to handle the pandemic and anyone who expressed that there was certainty was wrong.

[b]I don't think issues around opening or not are relevant now.[/b]  I want to know how the SB will help handle the teacher and principal shortage, ensure that teaching candidates hired through alternative means have the kinds of support that will make them excellent teachers (maybe partnering with GMU rather than just having all internal support?), ensure strong equitable education across the schools, resist calls to ban books/teach history but also honor the diverse parent perspectives that make up this school district through workable solutions.  [/quote]

The decision to keep school buildings closed for a full year, and the subsequent harm to children, will sadly be relevant for a very, very long time. [/quote]

Yes, but they made that decision in an very uncertain environment, with guidance from parents and others who all had varying opinions.  I was a parent who wanted virtual in Spring 2020 and thought I wanted it in Fall 2020, but started to change my mind over the course of the fall as more data came in and by winter thought we should be going back.  Which is what we did.  Other parents wanted virtual to continue and so they did.  Not everyone in FCPS thought the same and the SB had to consider all that.

The impacts of the pandemic (whether deaths and illnesses of parents and family members, lost income, virtual schooling) are going to be with us a long time.  My brother is a Catholic HS teacher in a school that never closed--in a part of the country where public schools closed for a shorter time than FCPS-- and the mental health concerns and behavioral problems in their students are through the roof.  I want SB people who understand the complexity of all that students experienced, not those who are just so sure others "got it wrong" and they know how to solve it.  (Especially when they also reveal themselves to be ignorant, biased, and full of hubris!)[/quote]

The made a decision that, in retrospect, was very wrong and harmful. They should be held accountable. [/quote]

I disagree.  The pandemic is what is harmful.  They are not accountable for that.[/quote]

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